Melk

FROM: Robert [E-Mail]
DATE: Saturday September 14, 2002 -- 2:15:29 pm

My Chicago-born dad pronounces milk like "melk," as does an Ohio-born family friend.

FROM: Robert [E-Mail]
DATE: Saturday September 14, 2002 -- 2:15:59 pm

Also: "Don't drink the milk." "Why?" "It's spurled!"

FROM: MollyCule
DATE: Monday September 16, 2002 -- 6:07:08 am

My boyfriend and I are both from Ohio (our hometowns are about 45 minutes apart). I say it melk and he says milk. We just had a large conversation over this in the grocery store yesterday, actually, right before the Lucky Charms/Frosted Flakes debate.

FROM: Greg
DATE: Monday September 16, 2002 -- 10:21:55 am

Sometimes I don't check the expiration date on the gallon and I end up pouring melk on my cereal. Quite a frustrating experience.

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Monday September 16, 2002 -- 2:55:34 pm

Interestingly, soy milk can become soy melk, as well. It's quite chunky.

FROM: Mary
DATE: Saturday March 6, 2004 -- 9:03:49 pm

I'm from Wisconsin and I say melk. If I think about it I'll say milk.

FROM: Robert [E-Mail]
DATE: Sunday March 7, 2004 -- 7:00:20 pm

We just had a large conversation over this in the grocery store yesterday, actually, right before the Lucky Charms/Frosted Flakes debate.

I sincerely hope the Frosted Flakes side won.

FROM: Joseph
DATE: Thursday March 11, 2004 -- 11:44:00 am

I am originally from Ohio--Cleveland area. There was always a raging debate between kids who said "milk" and kids who said "melk." The funny thing is, the "melkers" usually couldn't hear that they weren't actually saying "melk." So then I would ask them to say "silk" and they sheepishly would say silk that rhymed with "milk." However, they and their ilk still refuse to admit that "melk" is not "milk." Obviously, people who say "melk" for "milk" are stupid and stubborn. These poor qualities become especially pronounced when a "melker" says "It's no use crying over spilled melk," and they don't even realize that spill and milk are supposed to contain the same vowel sound; they never say "It's no use crying over spelled melk."
If you use "melk" according to the above definition, and not instead of "milk," then that's okay because it's a different word.

FROM: Grant
DATE: Tuesday May 10, 2005 -- 3:30:35 pm

On the car ride home i had a large argument with some of my friends about the word melk. I don't know where i picked up the pronunciation but i find ist strange that my siblings say melk too but neither of my parents do.

FROM: Grant
DATE: Tuesday May 10, 2005 -- 3:30:35 pm

On the car ride home i had a large argument with some of my friends about the word melk. I don't know where i picked up the pronunciation but i find ist strange that my siblings say melk too but neither of my parents do.